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  • US Bishops sought open discussion in the Church in 1995

    April 28 2012
    Carol Stanton

    It is amazing to read this, isn't it? From the vantage of 17 years on it was really a "red flag" warning to the church. Those same 17 years have brought huge shifts in the leadership of the church her

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  • A Plea for Reform from a Lay Woman

    April 20 2012
    John

    Thank you for this post and website. I am an Orthodox Christian and rejoice in the 'ordinary' Catholic voice becoming stronger - or so it seems to me. I am quite jealous as in Orthodoxy it seems to me

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  • Anonymous comments should not be posted here

    April 22 2012
    Noel Clarke

    Secrecy is at the heart of the Roman culture, manifested so powerfully in the confessional. Given the culture of to-day, attaching your identity to any comment that smacks of disloyalty to Rome is an

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  • The Catholic Church is in deep crisis. Nessan Vaughan

    April 19 2012
    Denis (England)

    Thank God for this website, for providing a forum for non-judgemental discussion and debate, for those who have had the courage and wisdom to establish the ACP, and those who continue to fulfil their

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  • Brian D’Arcy reflects on the recent ACP survey

    April 22 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    Finally tonight, some GOOD NEWS from Vatican City. Circulation figures for The Sunday World's local edition, Il Mondo Domenicale, a mere two years after launching, have now outstripped the combined sa

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  • An opinion poll is a snapshot of reality, not a call to revolt

    April 20 2012
    Colette

    There is no inability, or inadequacy in people discerning the results of the poll. A poll is a poll and not particularly beyond practicing Catholics, or non-practicing. Figures are figures, we must de

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  • Silent Vigil outside the Apostolic Nunciature: April 29th

    April 21 2012
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Without getting into the question of the orthodoxy of what any of the "silenced" have said or written, it seems to me there are some clear grounds for disagreeing with the actions that have been taken

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  • Brian D’Arcy reflects on the recent ACP survey

    April 22 2012
    George Winkley

    I have followed Fr. Brian as a result of his media presence in the UK for some time now. How sad that the CDF should seek to rein him in. Is our Church, of which Jesus himself is the head, so frigh

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  • Silent Vigil outside the Apostolic Nunciature: April 29th

    April 21 2012
    Kathleen Faley

    For family reasons I cannot be there physically to stand in Silent Vigil outside the Nunciature in support of our silenced priests: Fr. Sean Fagan,C.M., Fr. Tony Flannery,C.Ss.R., Fr. Gerry Moloney, C

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  • Anonymous comments should not be posted here

    April 22 2012
    Danielle Hicks-Gallagher

    it's true that when you write to a newspaper you have to give a name and address - but you can request that your comment remains anonymous, under various pen names - "Concerned local", "Visitor" etc -

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